© Daria Nipot - Depositphotos.com Economic impact of COVID-19 crisis fatally affects workers in producing countries - textile alliance must show solidarity right now Bonn / Berlin. The COVID-19 crisis affects all actors in the textile supply chain. However, it hits the weakest particularly hard. Fashion brands and retail companies have suffered a blatant loss of sales due to the stagnation of public life in this country. However, the economic pressure is passed on: Orders to supplier companies in Bangladesh or Cambodia are cancelled and goods that have already been completed are no longer accepted or paid for. The suppliers therefore dismiss the already poorly paid workers or close them completely. For workers, the growing risk of COVID-19 infection on the ground in the event of poor health care is combined with extreme economic hardship due to a lack of wages. Details Published: 02 April 2020 Read more …
© CCC Appeal to companies: Solidarity with the seamstresses in times of the corona pandemic Globally, the corona virus is spreading. Indiscriminately each of us can hit it - regardless of gender, skin color and nationality. What does this mean for global supply chains and our global responsibility for unprotected people? Details Published: 25 March 2020 Read more …
© FEMNET Fair procurement made easy: the Digital Allocation Tool Procurement procedures contain their pitfalls. The inclusion of minimum social and environmental standards often does not make things easier. But even with little experience, a fair award is feasible. Together with lawyer André Siedenberg, FEMNET has developed a digital award tool: an online decision-making aid for all those who want to procure fairer. Details Published: 24 March 2020 Read more …
© City of Bonn Barbara Frommann Fair procurement in small municipalities - handbook published More and more municipalities are making their way to get fairer. However, the concrete implementation is not always so simple. FEMNET has advised smaller municipalities on fair purchasing practices. Now let's take the “lessons learnt“ in one manual together: Our examples show that there are ways to achieve something - even if the staffing level is thin, the political backing is (still) lacking or there are legal uncertainties. Details Published: 18 March 2020 Read more …
© FEMNET Very exemplary: the District of Fürth The district of Fürth dares to: Since 2016, its member municipalities have been working together to make public purchases more socially equitable step by step. They reinforce each other, they coordinate strategies and they share procurement data. In the district of Fürth, many positive aspects intertwine: Active and dedicated Fairtrade Town steering groups that don't let up. The insight that fair procurement can be easier than thought. And the necessary political backing to make fair procurement also possible ‘from above’. Details Published: 17 March 2020 Read more …
© FEMNET Report on the trip to 2. Annual conference of MSI Tamil Nadu in India, supported by the Partnership Initiative of the Textile Alliance Important progress has been made by the multi-stakeholder initiative Tamil Nadu (MSI-TN) over the last 1.5 years – this was clearly visible at the conference on 6 February 2020, which was attended by around 140 people. Details Published: 05 March 2020 Read more …
© FEMNET Well protected? Exploitation for European workwear - studies published Extremely low wages, fixed-term contracts and the suppression of trade unions: Two new studies by FEMNET criticize precarious working conditions in the production of workwear in India and Tunisia. Such goods are also purchased by public institutions in Germany. Details Published: 20 February 2020 Read more …
© FEMNET Travel report 2020 from India & Bangladesh In January 2020, Gisela Burckhardt, Chief Executive Officer, and Sina Marx, Foreign Projects Officer, travelled to India and Bangladesh. We are regularly at our Local partner organisations, to plan together for the future and to convince us that your donations will arrive where they are needed. Here we want to share some personal impressions with you. Details Published: 19 February 2020 Read more …
© CIR - Christian Initiative Romero The ‘golden exploiter’ goes to the Federal Government! Organizations hand over more than 2,000 signed protest postcards and open letter. For their outstanding achievements in the field of Deportation of human rights responsibility Several organizations presented the award to the federal government last week. ‘The Golden Exploiter’. The satirical action was Alliance for Fair Trade, the CorA network, the Supply Chain Act initiative, the CCC and WEED carried out. Details Published: 23 January 2020 Read more …
© ifeelstock-depositphotos.com Non-profit needs interference FEMNET has been a member of the Alliance for Legal Security for Political Will-Making since 2019. The long-term goal of this alliance is a modern non-profit right, because those who deal with political education and make political demands are in danger of losing their non-profit status. Details Published: 04 January 2020 Read more …
